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Team Liquid is the name of e-sports – Clans and associated news portal, which in its function as an online media and community as the most important English port of call on StarCraft valid E-Sport. The coverage was later expanded to include other esports titles.

Due to the dominant market position of , the team is also referred to as based on the separate internet . With the there was also a separate tournament series.

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The Liquid Clan was founded at the end of 2000 by the Dutch StarCraft player Victor “Nazgul” Goossens. In StarCraft: Brood War , Liquid has long been considered one of the strongest teams outside of South Korea. With the appearance of the successor StarCraft 2, a new team was put together, which partly consisted of the SC: BW players from Team Liquid and partly of new signings.

At the end of 2010, the team entered into a cooperation with the South Korean StarCraft 2 clan Old Generations, in the course of which most of the Liquid players moved to Seoul into the training rooms of oGs and gained a foothold in the local professional league, the Global StarCraft II League tried. The most successful was the Swede Jonathan “Jinro” Walsh , who reached the top 4 both in the last season in 2010 and in the top division of the January 2011 GSL. Most of the players are now back in their homeland.

The team has had its own website since May 10, 2011.

On December 6, 2012, the organization was expanded to include a Dota 2 team, which until it was dissolved in 2014 belonged to the expanded world elite. The team consisted of parts of the former team compLexity and one former player each from the teams Evil Geniuses and . On March 18, 2014, Victor Goossens announced the formation of a Super Smash Bros. Melee team consisting of Daniel “KoreanDJ” Jung and Ken “Sephiroth” Hoang.

At the beginning of 2015, the team merged with and took over, among other things, the top-class League of Legends team from Curse, which plays in the North American professional league LCS . The organization also presented a lineup for the first time in the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive discipline on January 13, 2015. Team Liquid signed the former team around Nick “nitr0” Cannella. The team was initially strengthened in 2016 by the Ukrainian Aleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev and from June 2016 by the Dane Jacob “Pimp” Winneche . In July 2016, Liquid moved into the finals of ESL One Cologne 2016 and lost there against SK Gaming .

Team Liquid won The International in August 2017 and the associated prize money of almost eleven million US dollars.

The CS: GO team was meanwhile, especially in the middle of 2019, as the best team in the world. 2019 was the most successful year in clan history for the CS: GO division of Team Liquid with seven relevant tournament victories.

On August 25, 2019, Team Liquid won the League of Legends Championship Series (short: ; formerly, until September 2018 – ” “) for the fourth time with the Summer Split 2019 . Team Liquid is the first team to win four titles in a row in the North American top division.

Website

First and foremost, Team Liquid provides comprehensive coverage of the StarCraft e-sports scene and offers discussion forums for games from Blizzard Entertainment , such as StarCraft and StarCraft 2 . In addition, streams of ongoing events or games are listed. Over time, Team Liquid has grown to become the largest StarCraft and StarCraft 2 community on the Internet, with over 85,000 active members and more than 7 million posts.

The website was launched on May 1, 2001 under the domain teamliquid.cjb.net. On September 22nd, 2002, the website received the new and still valid domain teamliquid.net. One day after the inauguration, Team Liquid’s name was confirmed in a vote.

Team Liquid offers its users additional content, among other things

• Liquipedia – a wiki with articles on players, tournaments and strategies for the StarCraft: Brood War, StarCraft II, Dota 2, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm and Smash Bros. games.
• TLPD – a player database that lists the results of professional players in tournaments. (StarCraft: Brood War, StarCraft II)
• TL Power Rank – an editorially created world ranking of players.
• Calendar – a calendar that lists upcoming and past events.
• Live User Streams – a list of ongoing streams from programmers and community members.

Team Liquid StarLeague

• The two tournaments of the Team Liquid Starleague ( short ) that have already been held were among the largest non-Korean StarCraft: BW tournaments. The first TSL was sponsored by Razer and hosted in 2008 and was a highly anticipated event for the elite of the Brood War scene. The TSL2 that followed a year later doubled the prize money compared to the first tournament to $ 20,000.
• Team Liquid announced a third TSL tournament after StarCraft 2 was released, sponsored by PokerStrategy.com with a purse of $ 34,700.
• The TL Opens were one-day tournaments that were played on the European and American Battle.net servers and were used to qualify for the TSL.

Important active players

(As of March 14, 2018)

StarCraft & StarCraft 2

League of Legends

Nat.

Surname

position

Korea South

Jung “Impact” Eon-Yeong

Top lane

Denmark

Mads “Broxah” Brock-Pedersen

Jungle

Denmark

Nicolaj “Jensen” Jensen

Mid Lane

United States

Edward “Tactical” Ra

AD carry

Korea South

Jo “CoreJJ” Yong-In

Support

Counter Strike: Global Offensive

Hearthstone

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Dota 2

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege

• Brazil

  Leo Duarte “zig” Borges Pinto (since 2018)

• Brazil

  André De Jesus “nesk” Oliveira (since 2018)

• Brazil

  Luccas Vinnicius “Paluh Molina (since 2018)

• Brazil

  Thiago “SexyCake” Reis (since 2018)

• Brazil

  André “Sensi” Kaneyasu ( Coach , since 2018)

• Brazil

  Paulo Augusto “psk” Areneiro Lourenco (since 2018)

Important former players

Successes (excerpt)

StarCraft 2

• MLG Dallas 2010 : 1st place
• GSL Season 3 2010: 3rd / 4th space
• GSL January 2011: 3rd / 4th space

Joseph “ret” de Kroon

• European Battle.net Invitational 2011: 1st place
• DreamHack Winter 2011: 3rd place

Song “HerO” Hyeon-deok

• DreamHack Winter 2011: 1st place
• North American Star League Season 2: 2nd place
• DreamHack Winter 2012: 1st place

Dario “TLO” wish

• IEM Season VIII Sao Paolo: 3rd / 4th space
• HomeStory Cup VII: 4th place

Grzegorz “MaNa” Komincz

• WCS 2015 Season 3 : 2nd place

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Dota 2

• Shanghai Major: 2nd place
• EPICENTER 2016: 1st place
• Manila Major: 2nd place
• EPICENTER 2017: 1st place
• The International 2017 : 1st place
• DreamLeague Season 8: 2nd place
• EPICENTER XL: 2nd place
• China Dota2 Super Major: 1st place
• The International 2018 : 4th place
• MDL Disneyland® Paris Major: 2nd place
• EPICENTER Major: 2nd place
• The International 2019 : 2nd place

League of Legends

Individual evidence

Team Liquid

Location

Utrecht, Netherlands
Owners

Victor Goosens (Nazgul)
Steve Arhancet (Liquid112)

Player manager

Robin Nyman (Bumblebee)

Sponsors/Partners
HyperX
Barracuda Networks
ShinyThings
Razer
Twitch
NEEDforSEAT
Other games

Wikipedia has an article on Team Liquid.

Team Liquid (Liquid or TL) is a professional esports organization based in the Netherlands. Owned by Victor Goosens (Nazgul), the team began as a clan in 2000 and was initially centred around the video games of and .

In March 2014, the sponsor entered the community of professional by forming a team[1] of Ken and KDJ and became the first team with a major esports pedigree to enter the scene. On January 6th, 2015, it was announced on Twitter that Team Curse was merging with Team Liquid under the Liquid banner, which means that Team Liquid signed Team Curse’s rosters, including Hungrybox and Chillin, alongside Ken and KDJ. [1]On August 11th, 2015, Team Liquid signed Nairo as the fifth member of their division, but leave a year later. On July 9th, 2016, Crunch was signed by the team as Hungrybox’s official coach. On February 9th, 2018, Salem was signed to be their new representative for the scene, but they parted ways a year later, a short time after the beginning of the scene. A few days before the beginning of Smash Ultimate Summit, on March 7th, 2019, Team Liquid announced Dabuz’s arrival to represent Liquid on the scene.

Current smashers

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Professional smashers

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ID

Name

Game

Main(s)

Join Date

Ken

Ken Hoang

2014-03-18

Chillin

Kashan Khan

2015-01-06

Hungrybox

Juan Debiedma

2015-01-06

ChuDat

Daniel Rodriguez

2017-06-14

Dabuz

Samuel Buzby

2019-03-07

Atelier

Towa Kuriyama

2021-09-01

Other smashers

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•  Crunch  (Hungrybox’s coach, joined July 9th, 2016)
•  L4st  (Community tech coordinator and tournament director, joined August 11th, 2020)
•  Stimpy  (Brand ambassador, joined October 7th, 2020)
•  Chia  (YouTube strategist, joined October 25th, 2021)

Former smashers

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Professional smashers

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ID

Name

Game

Main(s)

Join Date

Leave Date

KDJ

Daniel Jung

2014-03-18

2015-09-28

Nairo

Nairoby Quezada

2015-08-11

2016-08-16

Salem

Saleem Akiel Young

2018-02-09

2019-02-27

Trivia

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• The decision to form a team for stemmed from documentary that was filmed by Samox, who also produced the announcement video for the induction of the duo to Team Liquid.
• Peter Nguyen (Waytosexy) welcomed Ken and KDJ on behalf of the team and revealed himself to be a enthusiast, while Jens Aasgaard (Snute) did the same on behalf of the team while himself revealing that he had played extensively in 2002, especially as Yoshi, and equated high-level play to high-level micro (the RTS shortening of micromanagement, meaning unit control.)
• Outside of its professional gaming endeavours, Team Liquid hosts the most-visited -related website in the world (TeamLiquid.net); both Ken and KDJ actually had registered and used the forums prior to joining Team Liquid. Since then, it has opened its own forums and has also added to its wiki, Liquipedia, which already includes sections for , , and .

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